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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder

You need a revolution in your life so as to know the plot of the devil and discover the thoughts of the Lord toward you — Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. — Chuck Palahniuk

Coffee, creativity, keyboard. The plot thickens. — William Blackwell

But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira? — Katsuhiro Otomo

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. — Tony DiTerlizzi

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. — Jonathan Franzen

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot. — Donald Trump

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks. — Robert J. Sawyer

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. — Barry Hannah

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome

I like fast plots with things that explode. — Paolo Bacigalupi

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things? — Theresa Villiers

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities. — Sara Sheridan

God is the creator of all good plot twists! — Shannon L. Alder

Plots are ... what the writer sees with. — Eudora Welty

i love the book called the princess plot and its a good book because its about how its mysterys from other peeps... — Kristen Boie

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would. — Kevin Focke

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea. — Dara Horn

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. — David Duchovny

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. — Bryant H. McGill

Seriously man, what are you waiting for? Get in there - or I will. - Marek Montvene — J.C. Morrows

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling. — Ira Sachs

I love a good plot twist, — Teresa Mummert

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. — John Searles

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power. — Sarah Hall

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. — Peter Temple

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot. — Mason Cooley

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. — Grantland Rice

Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist. — Gerald Posner

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road. — Ted Kooser

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine. — Franz Grillparzer

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details. — Bailey Vincent

Facebook is popular, approachable, and a fast, easy read. This social media behemoth is all about plot. — Frances Caballo

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden

Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all! — Anatole France

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. — Virginia Woolf

Fitzgerald's plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible. — Maureen Corrigan

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. — Edgar Allan Poe

There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead - so the plot must be widespread. — Jim Bishop

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. — Ovid

Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal — Debra Searle

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. — Jo Nesbo

I'm not saying the plot doesn't have holes. — Vernon D. Burns

To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot! — Ana Claudia Antunes

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving. — Adam Schlesinger

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy. — Doug TenNapel

[Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium. — John Barth

We are nothing more than a dot amongst the billions of organisms on the Hillis plot — Soroosh Shahrivar

It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end. — Margaret Edson

To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground. — A.W. Tozer

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. — Peter Baynham

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. — Alan Watts

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. — Tom Johnson

before a dream has a plot, characters, or setting, it gets assigned an emotion. — Sheenah Hankin

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. — Sara Sheridan

Oh what would Rome be without a plot? — Pope Alexander VI

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? — Shannon Hale

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave. — Sara Sheridan

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. — Daniel Woodrell

Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ... — Erica Jong

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. — James Russell Lowell

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. — Debasish Mridha

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too. — Lauren Myracle

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot. — James Norton

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters. — Patrick Rothfuss

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up. — Thomas Pynchon

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet. — David Letterman

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. — Eric Allman

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. — Ellen Potter

The last time she was up here, she had been ... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames. — Kiersten White

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off. — Clive Cussler

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? — George Villiers

Did you not detect the hairline cracks in the plot? Such — David Mitchell

Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white. — John Mayer

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast. — Drew McWeeny

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES! — Amy King

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. — Ramakrishna

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. — Michael Connelly

When something goes wrong in your life just yell 'PLOT TWIST', and move on — Molly Weis

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building. — Victor LaValle

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. — Dorothy Fields

I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist? — Meghan Blistinsky

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being. — Jack Canfield

Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon

I'm going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I'm a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge. — Kim Gruenenfelder

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. — Alan Moore

Desperate people are dangerous people. — Bob Ritter

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form. — Sarah Hall

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing. — George W. Bush

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice. — Diana Gabaldon

The character's attitude is more important than plot. — Stephen J. Cannell